I’m visiting home for spring break and a job interview. While sleeping on the couch very early this morning, my mother dropped what she called an “interesting fact” on the table next to me. Upon waking, I read this (apparently from a “Fact-a-Day” calendar, dated Wednesday, January 28th): It is believed that Shakespeare was forty-six [...]
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Spines and Pages and Words and Phrases, pt. 2
January 4th, 2009
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I went home for Christmas and set myself to organizing my old books. I brought home two boxes of older political science texts from Denver, so I managed to at least make a small dent at my apartment. Looking through my room back home, though, made me want to reconsider the entire endeavor. There was, [...]
Spines and Pages and Words and Phrases, pt. 1
January 3rd, 2009
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It’s been a long time coming, I can say that much. After years of wanton book collection, my “library” has swelled to such a size that I am forced to keep it in three separate locations. My apartment in Denver holds around 400 or so books – these are good ones that I have to [...]
